About GenWise
The long game in gifted education
GenWise was founded in 2017, but it's the latest chapter of a team that has spent nearly two decades finding India's most curious kids — and refusing to let the system bore them.
2000+
students taught
200+
courses run
200+
schools
80+
cities
Across every GenWise program since the beginning — the summer program, Gifted Lab, online courses and our teacher programs.
The lineage
You'll still find GenWise listed as a partner on the Ei ATS site — alongside Johns Hopkins CTY and Northwestern CTD. We keep good company.
The co-founders
Vishnu Agnihotri
Dedicated to nurturing the skills of gifted children as future leaders. A strong background in education assessments; Academic Director of India's top residential gifted program (2015–2017). Engineering degree from IIT Madras.
Shrikant Patil
Former director and early investor at Educational Initiatives, with a 15-year career at Intel; now advising and scaling GenWise programs. Advanced engineering degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Rajesh Panchanathan
Ex-Management Consultant at Accenture and former HR leader for Accenture's Technology Delivery Centres in Asia-Pacific. Engineering degrees from IIT Madras and Caltech; MBA from IIM.
The team on the ground
The people who live every day of every camp — and answer the phone when you call.
Ashish Kulkarni
Eating is a religion, and he's always praying.
Teaches economics, statistics and public policy — and has written econforeverybody.com for eight years running.
Eklavya Shetty
The reigning quiz master at GenWise.
With GenWise's students since 2016; historian of the program, researcher on learning beyond textbooks, and the person most likely to be holding a ukulele.
Kevin Meshach
Has an alter ego — Ricky.
Found his tribe with the May 2022 batch and never left — leadership, logistics, and an improving chess game.
Krishna Patel
Two cups of chai a day = happiness unlocked.
Master's in Astrophysics; eight years across learning environments, from TA at her first GenWise camp to building the environment she wishes she'd had.
What it looks like from outside
A parent who watched it land, and one of our earliest campers on where it led.
“The learning which they brought back along with them is fabulous. I mean, out of the world, there is nothing beyond words which I can express. We consciously took those courses which we thought were interesting and which our children could pursue in future.”
“I'm currently getting my bachelors in Neuroscience, and my first ever exposure to the field was through the Summer Program. My experience at this Program was an incredible learning and growth opportunity for me, both personally and academically. It inspired my interest in neuroscience and medicine, and I am so thankful for the opportunity it gave me!”
The belief underneath it all
A gifted kid's scarcest resource isn't opportunity. It's company.
Everything we run — the summer program, the community, the puzzles at the mess table — exists to fix that one thing.
See howWho we are, in one step
See whether it fits your child
Twenty questions, free, and a GenWise educator reads every answer. Then, if it fits, apply and we call you.
Free · 20 questions · 35 minutes. Pay ₹40,000 to hold a seat. Change your mind until 28 February 2027 and all of it comes back.